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Re:Sun: The Network Is the Computer by pinewurst on Sunday February 12, 2023 @11:39AM (#34764198)
They were bought by Oracle for salvage as an imploding shambles. If not Oracle, they would have ended up as SGI - merely a name for some white box vendor.

The problem here is the confusion between the wonder of late 80s workstation computing and the harsh realities after the Internet Boom.

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Re:Sun: The Network Is the Computer by AtlasBarfed on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:25PM (#34765947)
Oracle's primary interest was suing Google over Java in that acquisition
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Re:Sun: The Network Is the Computer by pjmlp on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:15AM (#34770974)
Regardless, Android Java should never had existed in first place, now we have Kotlin as Google's C#.

Sun did not sue as they were already out of cash after Google screwed them over.

Not only did Google contribute to Sun's downfall, they didn't even bother to buy Sun afterwards.

They only have themselves to thank for the lawsuit.

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